More than one-third of the food produced in the U.S. is never eaten, ending up instead in landfills, sewers and wastewater ...

The major food company Archer Daniels Midland announced it was correcting financial information after an internal ...

Made in the U.S.' labels can be used by foreign meat producers under certain conditions. Dave Dickey writes about the latest ...

Between 2017 and 2022, the number of Midwestern farms that used manure as fertilizer decreased from 137,305 to 118,944, ...

* Right-to-repair legislation for farm equipment, which would require agricultural equipment manufacturers to make software tools available to farmers to fix their own machines, was introduced in the ...

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In a state where college sports arenas blaze with fertilizer logos, the phrase “corn grows Iowa” is common on TV and radio and nearly 15% of lawmakers are farmers, there’s reluctance to pinpoint ...

Wild rice in 2,000-acre Lower Rice Lake, the tribe’s principal source of a harvest that commences in the fall. Credit: Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue This story was originally published by the Food ...

Summit Pork opened its 6,250-head swine finishing operation in Gage County's Hanover Township in 2023. Summit Pork’s owner, Bruce Rastetter, gave $50,000 to Jim Pillen’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign, ...

In response to the agriculture industry declaring a growing labor shortage, the U.S. House Agriculture Committee released a report on the H-2A guest worker program that outlines 20 specific ...

Herdswoman Chelsea Hansen examines a malfunctioning piece of equipment in the milking parlor at Ripp's Dairy Valley farm in Dane, Wisconsin, in 2017. photo by Coburn Dukehart, Wisconsin Watch From ...